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Staying in the old part of Chengdu (about 400 years old), gives you a real slice of history with an authentic experience – even our hotel felt like a museum. This meant hunting & gathering meals was also a purely authentic experience – with nothing in English. With stubbornly unhelpful staff and no picture book menus, we ventured into the streets for some curb stall food instead. We had an incredible array of choices from meaty rabbit skulls, to scorpions […]

If Hong Kong is a little stepping stone, Guangzhou (aka Canton) plunged us right into the deep end from the highest diving board. More of a businessman’s playground than anything else and therefore doesn’t really cater for tourists. We were thankful that we had a transfer organized from the airport because there’s no way we would have found our hotel – even our driver got lost for a while. Guangzhou takes the title for ‘Urban Jungle’ – an impressive 7000-9000 […]